Dual Boot

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Partition

Finding Disk Management

  • Type Control Panel in Search window
    • System and Security
      • Administrative Tools
        • Create and format hard disk partitons

Shrink Existing

  • Selected OS (C) - the shrink
  • default was
    • size before shrink 230974 MB
    • size after 124107
  • click on Shrink

Create Partition

  • Open Computer Management by selecting the Start button. The select Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
  • In the left pane, under Storage, select Disk Management.
  • Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then select New Simple Volume.
  • In the New Simple Volume Wizard, select Next.
  • Enter the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then select Next.
  • Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then select Next.
  • In the Format Partition dialog box, do one of the following:
    • If you don't want to format the volume right now, select Do not format this volume, and then select Next.
    • To format the volume with the default settings, select Next.
  • Review your choices, and then select Finish.

Create Boot Ubuntu Installation of USB

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Steps

  • Plug in USB dongle
  • Open Mac terminal window
 diskutil list
   ...
   /dev/disk4 (external, physical):
      #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *7.8 GB     disk4
      1:             Windows_FAT_32 KINGSTON                7.7 GB     disk4s1
 
 sudo umount /dev/disk4s1
   umount(/Volumes/KINGSTON): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'
 diskutil umount /dev/disk4s1
   Volume KINGSTON on disk4s1 unmounted
 
 sudo dd if=ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk4s1 bs=1m
   1514+1 records in
   1514+1 records out
   1587609600 bytes transferred in 749.040110 secs (2119525 bytes/sec)
 
 diskutil eject /dev/disk4s1
   Disk /dev/disk4s1 ejected

should have specified rdisk4s1 in dd command for improved speed.

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